Podcasts about three poems

Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez (Tupelo Press). Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, and many others. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo and MacDowell. She serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal, and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee.Delmira Agustini is considered one of the most important South American poets of the 20th century. She was born to upper-middle-class parents in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of 1886. She began writing poetry at the age of 10, and her first major work, El Libro Blanco, was published in 1907, when she was just 20 years old. She went on to publish several other books that were well-received by writers and critics. Links:Read "Still Life," "Houston," and "Landscape with Graceland Crumbling in My Hands"Read "Explosión" in Spanish and EnglishIliana RochaIliana Rocha's websiteBio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website"The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez" in New York Times Magazine"Mexican American Sonnet" at Poets.org"Three Poems" in Latin American Literature Today“like the building that reflects his death in every window: A Conversation with Iliana Rocha about The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez” — curated by Tiffany Troy in Tupelo QuarterlyDelmira AgustiniBio and "The Vampire" at Poets.orgSix Poems by Delmira Agustini (translated by Valerie Martinez) at Drunken Boat

Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez (Tupelo Press). Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, and many others. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo and MacDowell. She serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal, and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee.Delmira Agustini is considered one of the most important South American poets of the 20th century. She was born to upper-middle-class parents in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of 1886. She began writing poetry at the age of 10, and her first major work, El Libro Blanco, was published in 1907, when she was just 20 years old. She went on to publish several other books that were well-received by writers and critics. Links:Read "Still Life," "Houston," and "Landscape with Graceland Crumbling in My Hands"Read "Explosión" in Spanish and EnglishIliana RochaIliana Rocha's websiteBio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website"The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez" in New York Times Magazine"Mexican American Sonnet" at Poets.org"Three Poems" in Latin American Literature Today“like the building that reflects his death in every window: A Conversation with Iliana Rocha about The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez” — curated by Tiffany Troy in Tupelo QuarterlyDelmira AgustiniBio and "The Vampire" at Poets.orgSix Poems by Delmira Agustini (translated by Valerie Martinez) at Drunken Boat

Ian McMillan is leaning into unease this week as he discusses writing and Claustrophobia. His guests are Holly Pester, whose new novel 'The Lodgers' examines the psychological disturbances of precarious housing situations; we meet a woman renting a flat that is more like a sandwich packet than a house, and another who must make her own life extremely small as she lodges with a family.Catherine Coldsteam's new memoir is ‘Cloistered', a book about the twelve years she spent in a Carmelite monastery where she lived the life of a silent contemplative nun.Hannah Sullivan won the T.S. Eliot award for her collection ‘Three Poems'. Her latest book ‘Was it For This' considers a life shrunk small by new motherhood.The last in our series of Verb Dramas is Ghost In The Machine by Karen FeatherstonePresenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen

"My suicide just ran for president."

"I never meant to come back to Texas"

"my father stands on the serrated edge of a star / and dares me to jump"

December 13 is St. Lucy's day, traditionally a day celebrating light in the midst of the darkest, coldest time of the year. Today's poems–from Elaine Feinstein, John Donne, and Thomas Merton–all meditate on that contrast in some way. Enjoy, stay warm, and happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.org/poet/robert-pinsky Pinsky, R. (2012) Selected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Stephen M. Sanders reads his poems "Autumn in Paris, Texas"; "Tennessee Camp Meeting, 1982"; and "A Vagrant." Stephen M. Sanders is an assistant professor of English at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas. He has had poems included in publications including Pacifica Literary Review, Penumbra Literary & Art Magazine, and the Austin International Poetry Festival di-vêrsé-city anthology. His first novel Passe-Partout was published in 2019 (Monument Place Books). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 3 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we're honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you close. We know these conversations will change you as they have changed us. Rae Hoffman Jager is a poet and writer, yoga teacher, former doula, and currently, in nursing school. I first met Rae on Twitter, actually, it was this tweet, the one about birthing a dead baby, which came across my Twitter feed, and made me stop in my tracks. Rae and I break down the tweet - her word choice, how it supported her, and the backlash, and why she even Tweeted during the delivery of her son in the first place. Rae's son Fox was stillborn on Thanksgiving Day, 2021. Rae walks us through the journey of finding out he had passed during a routine visit, and what laboring and delivering a dead baby was like. Rae discusses how her Judaism was intertwined with the moment she met her son, and what it's really like to hold your dead baby. We talked about the support she received in the days after, what pregnancy after loss is like, and how she and her family connect and spend time with Fox today. Rae is honest, brave, raw, and fiercely determined to move through life while honoring Fox's life every step of the way. His death was the impetus for a major career shift, and we're so proud of her determination. You can read some of Rae's work here: Sitting Shiva, Atticus Review, August 2022 There Was No Jewish Way to Mourn Stillbirth — So We Created Our Own, Kveller, May 2022 Pregnancy Loss Taught Me This Important Jewish Value, Kveller, July 2022 Three Poems, Contrary Magazine Rae, thank you for sharing Fox with us all. We will remember him always. You can find Rae on Twitter and Instagram, and her website.

Four Faber poets will join us to read from their recent collections.Describing Declan Ryan's long-awaited debut, Crisis Actor, Liz Berry called it ‘elegant and heartaching'. Maggie Millner‘s Couplets, also a debut, is a novel in verse, a unique repurposing of the 18th century rhyming couplet into a thrilling story of queer desire. Hannah Sullivan's follow-up to her T.S. Eliot Prize-winning Three Poems, Was it For This, also consists of three long poems, on subjects ranging from London and the Grenfell fire to new motherhood. The title poem of Nick Laird's new collection, Up Late, won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Terrance Hayes has characterised his work as containing 'a truth-telling that's political, existential, and above all, emotional'.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rob Poyton reads In the Desert,  Sinbad It Was Not Well to Brag, and Revenant.Support the showContact us at innsmouthbookclub@outlook.comInnsmouth Literary FestivalNight Shade Books Facebook Youtube PatreonDragon's Teeth Gaming ChannelTim Mendees Innsmouth Gold Graveheart Designs

Special guest Communications Officer Taran returns to discover strange new worlds in the form of DeForest Kelley's three part poem, "The Big Bird's Dream."  Della (reluctantly) captains the ship and Tory still doesn't believe that Dr. McCoy's first name is Leonard. We discuss the relative merits of different Star Trek series and boldly go where many people have probably gone before. Link to All Three Poems: https://herethereandeverywhere2ndedition.blogspot.com/2006/06/7-years-ago-today.html

Phillip Aijian reads his poems, "Jurisdiction," "Why Do You Ask My Name?" and "The Old Road to Garry." Phillip Aijian holds a PhD in Renaissance drama and theology from UC Irvine, as well as an MA in poetry from the University of Missouri. He teaches literature and religious studies and has published in journals like ZYZZYVA, Heron Tree, Poor Yorick, and Zocalo Public Square. He lives in California with his wife and children. His poetry and art can be found at www.phillipaijian.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

"I'd like words to bring me closer / to everyone I love"

Buy Childhood here! Valerie Hunter - “A Long Day Waiting” “Never Ever, Or an Alarming Gap in Memory” “Turkey Cutlet Night” (read by Nicholas Yandell) Poetry Editor Nicholas Yandell and Editor-in-Chief Robert Eversmann join in discussion on “A Long Day Waiting” “Never Ever, Or an Alarming Gap in Memory” “Turkey Cutlet Night” by Valerie Hunter. Check out The Poet Heroic here. Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.

Buy Childhood here! Lynette Esposito - “Granddaughter” “Child Amongst the Wildflowers” “Laughter in the Hallway” (read by the author) Poetry Editor Nicholas Yandell and Editor-in-Chief Robert Eversmann join in discussion on “Granddaughter” “Child Amongst the Wildflowers” “Laughter in the Hallway” by Lynette Esposito. Check out The Poet Heroic here. Theme music is "Take Me Higher" by Jazzhar.

Three poems by Osip Mandelstam - translated by Andrey Kneller- ru-eng parallel text - mp3 podcast https://disk.yandex.ru/d/dA82eVgADHr9Swhttps://omdarutv.blogspot.com/2023/01/three-poems-by-osip-mandelstam.html https://sites.google.com/site/poetryandtranslations/osip-mandelstam/leningradhttps://sites.google.com/site/poetryandtranslations/osip-mandelstam/-we-live-with-no-sense-of-the-country https://sites.google.com/site/poetryandtranslations/osip-mandelstam/-for-the-thundering-valor

Carl Phillips reads three of his poems, "What Are We for What Are We," "Like So," "On Why I Cannot Promise", for MQR's Winter 2023 issue.

Just in time for Halloween! GennaRose Nethercott reads two spooky entries from the imagined bestiary 50 Beasts to Break Your Heart. GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, Bomb Magazine, Pank, The Literary Review, and others. Her first book, The Lumberjack's Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and her debut novel—the modern fairytale Thistlefoot—was published last month. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order on an antique typewriter with her team The Traveling Poetry Emporium. Links: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gennarose-nethercott/ (Read "Yune" and "Yslani," along with other entries from 50 Beasts to Break Your Heart, at Bomb) https://www.gennarosenethercott.com/ (GennaRose Nethercott's website) https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126626970/in-thistlefoot-gennarose-nethercott-explores-painful-history-through-folklore (GennaRose Nethercott on All Things Considered) https://pankmagazine.com/piece/three-poems-61/ ("Three Poems" at Pank) https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gennarose-nethercott/thistlefoot/ (Thistlefoot reviewed in Kirkus Reviews) https://berkeleyfictionreview.org/2020/11/20/he-is-sawdust-in-the-wind-review-of-the-lumberjacks-dove-by-gennarose-nethercott/ (The Lumberjack's Dove reviewed in Berkely Fiction Review) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org. https://the-beat.captivate.fm/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)

These poems, like elk, have some muscle and mystery to them. The trio is brought to us by Dave Mehler: "Elk in the Field" by Michael McGriff "Bull Elk in October River" by Chris Dombrowski "Pat Describes an Elk Bugling" by Dave Mehler  

On Friday, July 22, 2022, the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended the Troy Art Center Fish Market Community Engagement Project Event that featured performances by Poet and Artist in Residence D. Colin and Poet Amani Olugbala. In this part-two segment, Willie plays excerpts from D.Colin's raw version of her poems "Autopsy," "Magpie" and "I Can't Listen to the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Track 4, Anymore."

S2, Ep 11: Three poems from USEFUL JUNK by Erika Meitner: "A Brief Ontological Investigation," "letter from around the way," and "An Occupation of Loss" (published by BOA Editions Ltd, 2022, in their American Poets Continuum Series, No, 191). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/caridad-svich/support

In a follow on solo episode Lisa pulls back the current on how true Growing is Slow Going is in her own transformational journey. Hope you're encouraged to keep moving forward one step, one breath at a time.

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Valiant-for-Truth (5.43). Lord, Thou has been our refuge (8.01). I. Simcock (órg.), Christ Church Cathedral Choir. Dir.: S. Darlington. A vision of aeroplanes (9.31). J. Mac Vinnie (órg.), Coro del Clare College de Cambridge. Dir.: T. Brown. 3 Himnos corales (12.56). J. Langridge (ten.), A. Gupta (órg.), Coro del Clare College de Cambridge. Dir.: T. Brown. A clear midnight (Three Poems by Walth Withman) (1.28). I. Partridge (ten.), J. Partridge (p.). Escuchar audio

by Lorine Niedecker (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)

April 11, 2022 - Three Poems By Ukrainian Poets, Read By Priscilla Goldfarb by The Desmond-Fish Public Library & The Highlands Current, hosted by Ryan Biracree

Today's podcast is dedicated to the poetry of Georgian Poet Diana Anphimiadi. Thanks to our working relationship with the translator Natalia Bukia-Peters the PTC has been translating Georgian poetry since 2013 when two of Diana's poems 'May Honey' and ‘Tranquillity' were translated at one of our collaborative workshops, then in 2018 Diana was part of our Georgian Poets tour alongside Salome Benidze. Now the PTC with Bloodaxe Books has published Diana's first full-length English Language collection entitled Why I no Longer Write Poems, with translations by Natalia Bukia-Peters and the UK poet Jean Sprackland. The book has received Creative Europe funding and a PEN translates award. Plus, Diana's work was described as 'gorgeous, fabulising verse' by Fiona Sampson in The Guardian In her introduction, translator Natalia says: Diana Anphimiadi's paternal roots lie in Pontus, a historically Greek region on the southern coast of the Black Sea that once stretched form central Anatolia to the borders oft he Colchis in modern-day Turkey. Her mother is Georgian,from the area known as Megrelia-Colchis, where the famous legends of the Golden Fleece, the Argonauts, Jason and Medea also originate. In this small area of the Caucasus, Georgian literature – and Georgian poetry, in particular, has always been of central importance and its legacy, the urgency of expression and narrative allusions, can be felt in Anphimaidi's work You will hear prayer before taking nourishment, one of several prayer-poems Diana has penned, Dance 3 / 4 time, not just a dance Diana tell us but an Erotic poem and Medusa on of serval poems where Anphidiadi gives voice to the women of Greek mythology.

In "Easter 1916" Yeats commemorates the failed Irish Nationalist uprising of April 24, 1916. Its participants are All changed, changed utterly:    A terrible beauty is born.   In "Death" the poet muses on the nature of human consciousness as unique and tragic: creative, noble, brave and self-aware. In the sonnet, "Leda and the Swan," Yeats recounts Zeus's rape of Leda, mother of the Trojan war. This is one of Yeats' most celebrated poems. If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal to romanschapter5@comcast.net   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #poem #poetry #verse #literature #aestheticliterature #aesthetic #rhythmic #phonaesthetics #soundsymbolism #metre #prosaic #literarycomposition #poet #ambiguity #symbolism #irony #poeticdiction #muse #prosody #meter #metricalpatterns #rhymescheme #williambutleryeats #williamyeats #yeats #englishpoet #lovepoetry #thewhitebirds #thelovertellsoftheroseinhisheart #thecapandbells #sailingtobyzantium #thetwotrees #words #ledaandtheswan #death #easter1916

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was Irish, and is one of the great English poets. We center his poetry this month, beginning, appropriately, with love poetry. In this month of Valentine's Day, each poem I read speaks of my love for my Jenny, and Yeats is fertile ground! In "Words" the poet muses on his hard-won gift for poetry. He references what T. S. Eliot calls the "intolerable wrestle with words and meanings," the discipline of the poetic diction. It is a struggle, he declares, to be understood, to express the deepest meanings of the heart and mind. While fighting the battle, the poet "grew weary of the sun," until he succeeds, he thinks, in making his thoughts "plain" to his beloved - "I have come into my strength / And words obey my call." Alas, each success is also failure, but had SHE yielded to his suit: I might have thrown poor words away And been content to live.   In "The Two Trees," Yeats contrasts reality and self-perception, Time and eternity , and the eternal internal truth with the infernal internal lie. We nurture with our attention each thing that grows in our soul, and the fruit we reap follows upon that fertilizing attention. As in our podcast, The Christian Atheist, our self-reflection requires our choice and direction.   One of Yeats' most famous poems, "Sailing to Byzantium," written in 1926 is rich with poetic metaphor, and expresses well those years l'entre deux guerres. It is a journey well worth taking. Enjoy! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal to romanschapter5@comcast.net   https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com   #poem #poetry #verse #literature #aestheticliterature #aesthetic #rhythmic #phonaesthetics #soundsymbolism #metre #prosaic #literarycomposition #poet #ambiguity #symbolism #irony #poeticdiction #muse #prosody #meter #metricalpatterns #rhymescheme #williambutleryeats #williamyeats #yeats #englishpoet #lovepoetry #thewhitebirds #thelovertellsoftheroseinhisheart #thecapandbells #sailingtobyzantium #thetwotrees #words #ledaandtheswan #death #easter1916

Unknown, Castles and My Friend's Arm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-scarabin/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-scarabin/support

In our last episode, Sandra challenged Dee to read “Of the Empire,” “Black Oaks,” and “The Summer Day,” three poems by Mary Oliver. This week, we hear her thoughts about the poems and discuss their meaning to both Dee and Sandra.

A selection of poems for the eve of the Nativity - "Let Me Keep Singing" by Annie Lighthart, "Ways to Make Ultra Sound" by Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo, and "Awaiting," by former Poet Laureate of Oregon Paulann Petersen. Merry Christmas, friends.

Workshop tour and show & tell by Richard Minsky

On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature three upcoming poets performing their poetry. Nicole Farmer - Why the girl? and Animals Jerome Berglund - Paint Chips Haiku Patricia Cannon - Solitary Song The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads shadow's play from his book canvas: poems. James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings/support

The late Robert E. Howard was famous for larger-than-life characters like Solomon Kane and Conan the Barbarian, but he was also an accomplished poet. We present three eerie pieces of verse from Howard, read for you by Duane Noch, James Leeper, and Carl Yowell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The late Robert E. Howard was famous for larger-than-life characters like Solomon Kane and Conan the Barbarian, but he was also an accomplished poet. We present three eerie pieces of verse from Howard, read for you by Duane Noch, James Leeper, and Carl Yowell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poe's Poetic Principle - Three Poems On The Death Of A Beautiful Woman Find more great audio at www.RedfieldArtsAudio.com ______________ In “The Philosophy of Composition" , an 1846 essay written by Edgar Allan Poe , he gives his theory about how good writers write, when they write well. He concludes that length, "unity of effect" and a logical method are important considerations for good writing. He also states that "the death... of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world". Ulalume is a poem written by Poe in 1847. Much like Poe's poems The Raven and Annabel Lee, Ulalume focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound. It makes many allusions, especially to mythology. The three central elements of Poe's philosophy of composition are: Length. Poe believed that all literary works should be short. They should be read in a single sitting. Method. Poe dismissed the notion of artistic intuition and argued that writing is methodical and analytical, not spontaneous. Unity of effect. The essay states Poe's conviction that a work of fiction should be written only after the author has decided how it is to end and which emotional response, or "effect", he wishes to create, commonly known as the "unity of effect". In this essay, Poe logically decides on "the death... of a beautiful woman" as it "is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover." Biographers and critics have suggested that Poe's obsession with this theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his mother Eliza Poe, Jane Stanard, his foster mother Frances Allan and, later, his wife Virginia. In the essay, Poe traces the logical progression of his creation of "The Raven" as an attempt to compose "a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste." Even the term "Nevermore," he says, is based on logic following the "unity of effect." The sounds in the vowels in particular, he writes, have more meaning than the definition of the word itself. He had previously used words like "Lenore" for the same effect. The Raven itself, Poe says, is meant to symbolize Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. This may imply an autobiographical significance to the poem, alluding to the many people in Poe's life who had died.

Reciting three new poems of mine in raw form. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unloadingpoetry/support

Jill Trade provides us with two quick, but serious, poems that just might save your life. Sadly, her third poem details the fate of those who don't listen to warnings. Jill Trade is married and the mother of three active boys, so she spends a lot of time at playgrounds imagining poetry, which she said she recently rediscovered. Her background includes training in meat cutting, which may influence her imagination.Jill Trade's The Root Cellar, The Summer Camp and Perrydell's Hayride are read by Kit Pancoast Nagamura, an artist, writer and poet living in Japan.

Three Poems inspired by the Moon and how drawn I am to “her.” I recite “Under This Moon.” “Serenity” and “Talk To Me.”All three will be in my soon to be released book of poetry titled “This Thing Called Love” by JMGS

Henry Nelson Coleridge, nephew of the famous English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, took notes about things he heard Samuel say at gatherings of family and friends from 1822 to 1834. He figured they might someday be worthwhile biographical records about the life of his famous uncle. After Samuel's death, Henry published the notes, bringing to light one of history's most oft repeated quotes about poetry:“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry. That is, prose equals words in their best order; poetry equals the best words in the best order.”And while we certainly have a lot of “words in their best order” in our collection of fairytales and folktales, you'd be surprised how many of those pieces of prose toe the line of poetry. Whether it's short, repeated phrases (“I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow the house down”), rhymes (“Jack and Jill went up the hill”), or even just the performative style of speaking (“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!”), poetry fits right into the fairytale crowd. So today, we've pulled out a whole stanza of poetic folktales and rhymes from our library, from the naturalist poetry of Doug Elliott to the rhymed adventures of Linda Gorham. Join us on a rhythmic journey to the land where poetry and prose meet: the land of storytelling. On today's episode, enjoy the following:“Frogs, Guardians of Water” by Doug Elliott (12:57)This poetic creation story recounts the history of water.  When the creatures of the earth begin to take their water for granted, the wells of life run dry—literally and figuratively. Will the great council of animals be able to restore the flow of the creator's greatest gift? And who will the council select to guard that gift forever more? Well, the title should give you a pretty good hint. This story is from the famous naturalist Doug Elliott's collection of bush folktales called Bullfrogs on Your Mind. See if you can catch the quick, four-line poems that Doug sneaks into this story—sometimes they're over before you even realize they rhymed!  “The Artist” by Ted Fink (6:50)Written by Ted Fink himself, and part of a collection of newer work from the Philadelphia storyteller called The New Stuff: Stories ‘n Songs, this longform poem tells the tale of why Ted grew into a storyteller. He compares his very conservative aunt Seely to his seemingly mysterious uncle Lou. When Ted finds one of Uncle Lou's beautiful wood carvings relegated to a shelf in the basement, he comes to better understand the price of living your dreams, and why those dreams sometimes end up on the shelf.  “Three Poems of Arab Andalusia” by Pam Faro (2:49)13th-Century Spanish writer Ramon Llull (yuh-ee) published “The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men,” a remarkable work that tells of three teachers—a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim—amiably conversing together about their three faiths. At the end of the day, they agree to meet again and again to repeat the rich experience. This medieval story was the inspiration for Pam Faro's Andalusian Trilogy collection, which includes offerings from each of the three Abrahamic faith traditions, including these pieces of translated Arabic poetry. “The Road Not Taken” by Joseph Sobol (4:25) Joseph Sobol brings Robert Frost's classic poem to life by setting the lyrics to his own jaunty, folksy piece of music. Though Frost initially wrote the now famous poem as a joke for a friend, “The Road Not Taken” would go on to be a beloved part of the American poetic cannon as a fairy-tale-like meditation on choice. It was originally published in Frost's 1916 collection, Mountain Interval. Sobol is both a professional folklorist and cittern player of Tennessee fame, bringing poetry and music to his Southern fans with a variety of storytelling collections, including the one this song belongs to: Citternity. “Black and Yellow” by Tim Lowry (7:37)This traditional “porquoi” tale hails from Spain and explains why bumblebees have their black and yellow stripes. Tim doesn't tell the story in verse, but the bee has long been a part of the literary tradition of Spain as a symbol of industriousness, godliness, and even memory (the beehive is often compared to the mind in structure). From Tim's cross-cultural collection, Folk Tales from Around the World, this story has all the trappings of a Tim Lowry telling: poetic language, historic facts, and an unmistakable Southernness. “The Mr. & The Mrs.” by Linda Gorham (4:05)This nursery-rhyme-style tale follows a couple who come into possession of a magic pot that duplicates anything put inside. But what happens when you put in someone instead of something? This cute take on an old welsh legend, from a collection of family tales called Common Sense & Uncommon Fun, is only one side of Linda Gorham's impressive storytelling repertoire. On the other end of the spectrum, Linda's well-researched historical retellings won her the Linda Jenkins Brown Nia Award for Service from the National Association of Black Storytellers.  “Lost in Cyberspace” by Donna Ingham (6:09)Donna uses this freeform poem to explain how her son and his wife introduced her to the world of technology, to which she calls herself an “immigrant in a foreign land.” The poem uses clever wordplay to spin tech company names, internet slang, and other technical jargon into a web of misunderstandings between generations. The story comes from a collection called Our Boy, C. Y. (and his Sweet Young Thing of a Wife), which gathers six of Donna's prize-winning, original lies. So, naturally, nothing about this story is true. 

In this episode of the Written to Speak Podcast, Tanner Olson shares three poems from his latest EP, Notes Volume 1. In this episode you'll hear Headed East, I Read Your Poem Yesterday, and Walk A Little Slower. Notes Volume 1 is available wherever you stream music. Looking for something to read? Check out my first book, I'm All Over The Place.Buy the book on my websiteBuy the book on AmazonTo become a Patron and support the mission of Written to Speak, visit www.patreon.com/writtentospeak.Visit writtentospeak.com to read, shop, or watch.Written to Speakwrittentospeak.comInstagramSpotifyiTunesThe music from this episode is by Matthew DoeringFollow Matt on InstagramSupport the show (http://www.writtentospeak.com/podcast)Support the show (http://www.writtentospeak.com/podcast)Support the show (http://www.writtentospeak.com/podcast)

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